How to get and retain true riches

Messages for May 2017: Our Month of Our Wealthy Places

Message for Wednesday the 31^st of May, 2017

Theme: Understanding our Wealthy Place in Christ

Topic: How to get and retain true riches

Introduction: As we draw the curtain on this month, we want to thank God for taking us through this great month safely. We do not take His miracle of keeping us for granted. The enemy has not changed in his mission to steal, kill and destroy but the Lord has kept us as the apple of His eyes in spite of the wickedness of the wicked and for this we are very grateful.

So far this month we have been looking at the truth that our wealthy place is packaged in The Blessing of the Lord and our text scripture has been Proverbs 10:22 to the effect that the blessing of the Lord makes rich and adds no sorrow with it. Any right thinking person would know that if God makes rich with no sorrow attached, that is the kind of wealth we must long for rather than the mundane fleeting things on earth like money which cannot protect people from sorrow.

We would therefore be rounding off this great series by looking at how to access and retain true riches knowing that we already made a distinction between riches and true riches at the beginning of the month before concluding that true riches is encapsulated in The Blessing of the Lord.

What True riches are: I believe true riches are the intangible blessings of God that make the tangible blessings possible. For instance, for you to get abundance of money in God’s kingdom God’s way, God has to first give you the power to get wealth. This power is intangible because you cannot see it physically but it has the ability to make the tangible resource called money possible for you and you can have it in abundance. In fact it is God’s pleasure to give it to you because he said so. See Lk.12:29-33; 16:11 and Deu.8:18. In our text scripture here, God is showing us that when we seek Him first we will have the Kingdom of God at His instance. This is huge because control of the kingdom grants us automatic access into the riches of God which are far superior to that of this world and has the ability to make nonsense of the riches of this world. Furthermore, the power to get wealth must precede wealth and when it is coming from God, it gives you more than money. It gives you other intangible resources and the mind to mine them into concrete physical existence.

Steps to accessing and retaining wealth God’s way: In Lk.16:11, the Lord made a contrast between money and true riches showing us that the possession of money is not really true riches. We have also seen that true riches are encapsulated in the blessing of the Lord. Therefore, let us now see how to access true riches. I will make a list of steps we can take to access true riches here:

1.     The new birth experience: This reunites us back to our maker who is our source so that the glory with which we were originally created would be restored back to us. When this happens, we become potential candidates for the true riches. I say potential because what you get in the kingdom is choice determined. For instance if you get saved and choose to be carnal instead of spiritual, you will suffer the same thing that the world suffers because to be carnally minded is death – Rm.8:6-8. See Rm.6:23; 1Cor.15:22; Jn.5:24 and Jn.3:16-19.

2.     The infilling with the Holy Spirit: This is the most important experience to seek after the New Birth because it is the Holy Spirit that is the grace of God on earth to take care of all our spiritual needs. In Jn.14:23 and 26; 16:13; Rm.8:26 and 1Jn.2:26, we are told by the Lord that when the Holy Spirit comes, He would do the following things for us:

§  Guide us into all truths: There are many things we need to know and do to get into the true riches of God which we cannot know and do naturally, but the Holy Spirit will guide us into them as He helps us to make the right choices. See Ps.25:12

§  Show us things to come: With the Holy Spirit in our lives, access of familiar spirits and witches into our lives and destiny becomes blocked to them and we enjoy the liberty of walking in the truth of the word of God and enjoying the riches of the graces of God unhindered.

§  Tell us the mind of God all the time: Through the Holy Spirit, we can know the mind of God at any given time so that we can walk in the perfect will of God all the time. This would really protect us from making bad choices some of which could result in devastating consequences. See Ps.32:8

§  Help us to pray the perfect will of God and thus be spiritual: We learn from Rom.8:26 that if we do not know what to pray as we ought, the Holy Spirit will make intercession for us in groaning which cannot be uttered in articulate speech. This is what it means to pray in the spirit or in other tongues. See 1Cor.14:14

§  Keep company with us and thus eliminating loneliness: When we pay the price of obedience to God’s word, we are rewarded with divine presence. His presence with us has the ability to eliminate every feeling of loneliness from our lives. Should we need any kind of human company, He has the ability to bring them to us as He did for Adam. See Jn.14:23 and Gen.2:18; 21-23.

§  Teaches us every spiritual thing we need to know: See 2Cor.2:12-13 where we learn that the Spirit we have received enables God to teach us spiritual truths which in turn gives us access into the things that God has freely given to us.

3.     Seek the wisdom of God: The wisdom of God will help you to get and retain the true riches. This is why we are told by the author of Proverbs in Prov.4:7 that wisdom is the principal thing we must get and when we are at it; we must also get understanding because they go hand in hand. Whereas wisdom will enable you to correctly apply knowledge, understanding will help you retain it because wisdom is the fear of the Lord while understanding is the departure from iniquity. See Job.28:28; Prov.8:1, 10-21 and Mt.7:23-27. Those who seek the wisdom of God would long for the word of God, read it, meditate on it and do it. This is what makes one wise unto salvation from all the evils of this world and beyond. See 2Tim.3:14-17.

I will draw the curtain on this month’s series with this simple truth. I believe we have all been enriched this month. May the word of the Lord increase more and more in us in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Meanwhile someone may be reading this that is yet to take the first step of salvation mentioned above. This is your glorious opportunity. You can do so right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you will be born again:

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.

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